In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

Ver. 30. In that night was Belshazzar … slain.] By Gaddatha and Gobrya, two of Cyrus's commanders, who had been wronged by Belshazzar (as Xenophon a also testifieth), and now took revenge on him, after that they had betrayed the city, and brought in Cyrus's army. So fell that famous Babylon: fuit Ilium et inyen, gloria Teucrorum.

a Xenoph. Cyrop., lib. vii.

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